[CentOS] Change from Root

Tue Oct 27 15:24:30 UTC 2009
Neil Aggarwal <neil at JAMMConsulting.com>

Victor:
 
Also, check out section 4.4.2 of the security guide:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/security-guide/s
1-wstation-privileges.html
 
It addresses your question precisely.
 
    Neil


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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of Victor Subervi
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:52 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Change from Root


What I was interested in doing was to make it impossible for root to login
directly, but rather enable other users to login and then su to root. So I
edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config to read:
#PermitRootLogin no
(It was the dir I didn't know.) It initially said "yes", but it was and is
commented. How is it that I then and still can login directly as root? Is
reboot necessary?
TIA,
V


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Neil Aggarwal <neil at jammconsulting.com>
wrote:


> I am not sure what a VPS is


VPS stands for virtual private server.

       Neil


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